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STATE v. EDWARDS

(13384)

214 Conn. 57 (1990)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. ROSS BLAINE EDWARDS

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released February 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent Drager, assistant public defender, with whom, on the brief, was G. Douglas Nash, public defender, for the appellant (defendant).

Leon F. Dalbec, Jr., deputy assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were John M. Bailey, state's attorney, and Lawrence Daly, assistant state's attorney, for the appellee (state).

PETERS, C. J., HEALEY, CALLAHAN, GLASS and HULL, JS.

PETERS, C. J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is the sufficiency of the evidentiary foundation for the request of a defendant, charged with having committed the crime of murder, that the jury be instructed on the lesser included nonintentional homicides of manslaughter in the first and second degrees and criminally negligent homicide. A jury found the defendant, Ross Blaine Edwards, guilty of the murder of his sister, in violation of General Statutes § 53a...

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